Month: September 2021

DUBLIN GAA SECRETARY John Costello has called on the government to use Nama land to develop more sporting facilities and prevent the capital from becoming “Stop the ‘city of concrete’: Dublin GAA want government to sell Nama land to sports clubs”

SYDNEY SWANS, NORTH Melbourne and Essendon all had recruiters in attendance at last weekend’s AFL combine in Dublin with four young Irish prospects set to “4 GAA players to head to Australia in April after last weekend’s AFL combine in Dublin”

THREE OF THE LARGEST betting companies in the UK have agreed to a new deal which will see gambling advertising prohibited “whistle-to-whistle” during live sports “Betting adverts to be banned ‘whistle-to-whistle’ during live sports broadcasts in the UK”

EARLY SUPER 8S games at the home of provincial venues, taking ‘the next logical step’ by adopting a two-tier championship and a belief that trialling “John Costello: ‘It is neither the root of all fixture-making evil or a panacea for football’s ills’”

DUBLIN’S 2013 LEINSTER senior hurling championship-winning captain Johnny McCaffrey has announced his inter-county retirement. Lifting the Bob O’Keeffe Cup in 2013. Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO The “Dublin’s 2013 Leinster-winning captain calls time on inter-county hurling career”

JEROME O’SHEA, A three-time Kerry All-Ireland senior football winner, has passed away at the age of 87. Jerome O’Shea won All-Ireland medals in 1953, 1955 “Tributes paid after 3-time Kerry All-Ireland football winner passes away”

ALL-IRELAND-WINNING manager with Donegal Jim McGuinness has taken another step away from GAA and further into association football after taking the head coach role with “All-Ireland winner Jim McGuinness takes head coach role with US second-tier side Charlotte”

THE INVOLVEMENT OF divisional and college teams in the Cork senior football and hurling championships could be set for a major overhaul at the county’s “Major changes could be in store in Cork GAA for divisional and college teams in county championships”

“I DON’T THINK there are words to describe or explain exactly what it could mean.” This is it. A fifth stab at that elusive All-Ireland “‘I don’t think I’ve ever wanted something as bad… I think I can say that collectively from the team’”

Mourneabbey (Cork) 1-13 Foxrock-Cabinteely (Dublin) 1-7 Emma Duffy reports from Parnell Park  AFTER FOUR YEARS of hurt and heartbreak, Mourneabbey are finally All-Ireland senior club “Fifth time lucky as Mourneabbey finally crowned All-Ireland club champions”